The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) contracted the Technology & Social Change group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington to conduct a performance evaluation of the Namibia Regional Study and Resource Centers ...

This evaluation design report documents the evaluation questions and methodology that will guide the evaluation of Namibia’s Regional Study and Resource Centers (RSRCs). This report provides an overview of the RSRCs and ...

Exposure to crime and violence, discrimination, and a structural lack of institutional support for education and human development continue to plague at-risk youth in urban poor neighborhoods of Latin America. With the ...

What is Open Access to Research Data?
Is it free and open access to raw data? Access to data collection tools and
instruments? Access to data with tools to organize and analyze? These are the
types of questions the ...

The world is witnessing widespread participatory movement toward transparency, democratization, and responsive governance. Pressing social need and enabling technologies have allowed innovative strategies for social change ...

This paper is part of a project at the Center for Information and Society to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD).
Our intention is to ...

Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to ...

The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create ...

Public access to information and communication
technologies (ICTs) can play an important role
in development. Communities benefit when
people can access information and communicate
with experts and people in their ...

The paper is based on the findings of Public access study conducted in Uganda as part of the
broader study in 24 countries. It summarizes the methodology of the research, bringing out key
findings with success factors ...

The present document reflects the actual situation in Honduras as far as access to
information and communication is concerned. To better elucidate the situation in this
country, a situational diagnosis was carried out ...

For the last eight years, Argentina has suffered the ups and downs of a deep political,
economical, and social crisis, which had been brewing since the late 1970s. This crisis is
being overcome in the macro economic and ...

Development Research Network (D.Net)(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-08-15)

Public Access Information Venue came into lexicon in the backdrop of changing
information and knowledge landscape followed by emergence of Internet in early 1990s.
People started to behave differently in terms of accessing ...

In recent years, Brazil has undertaken substantial efforts to provide the public with access to
information and communication technologies (ICT) to help further the country’s social and
economic development. A national ...